I laugh like heck about abandoning revenue neutrality for the carbon tax. The NDP whined and sniveled when it wasn't quite revenue neutral, and now they are destroying it completely. What a bunch of hypocrites!!

The revenue neutrality of BC's carbon tax has been highly praised in many circles as very good policy. Obviously good policy doesn't matter to the NDP! Just more money to feed to their masters - the BCTF.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Brandeis

You can't blame the NDP for the possible down-grading of our credit rating. The BC Liberals managed to dodge that bullet in their usual fraudulent methods.

Also, the carbon tax was never revenue neutral, at least not since Christy got her grubby little hands on the reins. You know that, HG, so why aren't you using some your other ammunition to discredit the NDP? You know, like union affiliation and stuff like that?

Cactusflower wrote:You can't blame the NDP for the possible down-grading of our credit rating. The BC Liberals managed to dodge that bullet in their usual fraudulent methods.

Also, the carbon tax was never revenue neutral, at least not since Christy got her grubby little hands on the reins. You know that, HG, so why aren't you using some your other ammunition to discredit the NDP? You know, like union affiliation and stuff like that?

Typical load of horse dung one would expect from an NDP zealot.

I can't imagine what it's like to be able to summarily mentally delete anything negative brought up about the NDP.

The only thing you guys are good at is blaming everyone, and everything, other than the NDP, for it's failures and ineptitude.

Then again I guess you've had 16yrs to practice, given we know you sure as heck didn't use the time to come up with viable plans, budgets, or anything else of actual value.

"Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance."

Cactusflower wrote:You can't blame the NDP for the possible down-grading of our credit rating. The BC Liberals managed to dodge that bullet in their usual fraudulent methods.

Also, the carbon tax was never revenue neutral, at least not since Christy got her grubby little hands on the reins. You know that, HG, so why aren't you using some your other ammunition to discredit the NDP? You know, like union affiliation and stuff like that?

And of course the NDP are to be blamed for the credit downgrade. They are transferring $200 million in revenue to NDP Gregor and NDP Derek and lumping the province as a whole with the debt. The tolls aren't gone. The tolls will now go into the incompetent and "grubby" little hands of bicycle Gregor and demovictions Derek and the rest of the shoddy crew that have wrecked lower mainland transit and housing.

And of course the NDP are to be blamed for paying back incompetent NDPers bicycle Gregor, demovictions Derek and "just give us cash" Malcolm for abrogating their responsibilities to maintain rental housing stock and social housing. Those three goofs have destroyed more rental housing than you can shake a stick at. The city of Vancouver has had a 20% social housing policy since 1988, yet Gregor allowed the Vancouver social housing stock to fall to 8% - spent the money on stupid bicycle paths and pet projects like that. Demovictions Derek just signed off on booting 6,000 people out of their rental housing and says "social housing isn't my responsibility" - horsefeathers!! "Gimme cash" MalColm has been under constant fire for allowing developers to not include the mandated social housing units, just giving the city of Richmond cash - which somehow never gets spent on social housing. NOW the NDP are rewarding those goofs for their campaign support by saddling the province with the cost of 114,000 social housing units that the rest of us have to pay for!

Why should the rest of the province pay for the NDP three stooges incompetence, dishonesty and utter failure? Those clowns had the land, control of the bylaws and zoning - but they just took the money and played with bicycle paths and owelympic facilities and anything but the social housing and rental stock that is their responsibility. But, ah yes, they supported Johnny and his bunch of 1990s incompetents. So the NDP pay them back at the expense of the rest of the province.

It stinks! $3.7 billion added to the provincial books as debt, and hand the $200 million in revenue to those 3 stooges? The tolls aren't gone, they are coming back - only worse - ya, they'll call it mobility pricing or some other bafflegab - but the tolls are coming back. Surrey gets screwed again, and by the same rotten bunch of incompetents.

Those 3 stooges messed up the lower mainland housing mix, now the NDP reward them with provincial money! That stinks.

Notice how Malcolm is getting his way about the Massey Bridge, yet the mayor of Delta wants it...

It isn't good policy the NDP are pursuing, it is payback for for the three stooges who are NDP cronies. After all, they have bicycle Gregor's right hand man sitting as Horgan's chief of staff.

Crooked as all get out.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Brandeis

BC Budget: Bigger debt and bigger spendingBC government hikes carbon tax and piles on more debt

VICTORIA, BC: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is disappointed that the new BC government is hiking taxes, boosting spending and increasing the debt.

“BC taxpayers will pay more for heating their homes, driving their cars and running their businesses in the wake if this budget, because the carbon tax is going up and it isn’t even going to be ‘revenue neutral’ anymore,” said Kris Sims, BC Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. “The government has also cancelled the requirement to report where the carbon taxes taken from British Columbians go – this is now just going to be another buried tax grab that we are all forced to pay.”

The BC government is also adding to the provincial debt, boosting it by $6.9 billion between now and the 2019-20 fiscal year. That means the provincial debt is forecast to balloon from $65.9 billion to a total of $72.8 billion.

When you're dead, you don't know you are dead. It is only difficult for the others.

I could also point out that our school counsellors may be steering students on to the career path to university to become teachers. Is it well known that "teachers" are retiring in droves now the boomers want to downsize and retire early? I recall many people were given out the prerequisites for advancing into the university teacher programs. So Canada has 3500 extra educated people who can parlay their skills into other careers if they so choose. Are you saying that is a waste of labour?

Why blame the NDP for that?

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Please edit "Horgan" to "Premier Horgan" to show solidarity towards a successful tenure. Remember: The NDP Government: 2017 thread is not in the Bickering Room.

Yeah well we have somewhat of a better foundation, what with favoring 16yrs of prosperity and all, compared to regressing back to what didn't work in the 1990's, in the hopes the electorate is too stupid to notice.

"Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance."

Old Techie wrote:Yeah well we have somewhat of a better foundation, what with favoring 16yrs of prosperity and all, compared to regressing back to what didn't work in the 1990's, in the hopes the electorate is too stupid to notice.

I trust that you are directing your observations and comments to the appropiate people and not just posting here about it.

Please edit "Horgan" to "Premier Horgan" to show solidarity towards a successful tenure. Remember: The NDP Government: 2017 thread is not in the Bickering Room.

I could also point out that our school counsellors may be steering students on to the career path to university to become teachers. Is it well known that "teachers" are retiring in droves now the boomers want to downsize and retire early? I recall many people were given out the prerequisites for advancing into the university teacher programs. So Canada has 3500 extra educated people who can parlay their skills into other careers if they so choose. Are you saying that is a waste of labour?

Why blame the NDP for that?

BC barfs out 1700 teachers a year for 400ish jobs.

For such a hard job, for such crappy pay, for such terrible working conditions, there still seems to be a >300% glut of supply on the market.

But Horgan is fixing all that. He's going to make sure that the BCTF gets union dues from another 3500 teachers, even though student enrolment has declined by 70,000 since 2000.

"I don't even disagree with the bulk of what's in the Leap Manifesto. I'll put forward my Leap Manifesto in the next election." - John Horgan, 2017.

It has become obvious that the only people who are complaining about the addition of more teachers in B.C. are the same people who went from K - 12 under the BC Liberal regime. Uneducated comments abound here on the Castanet forums.